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Career timeline: Miguel Cabrera

April 18, 1983

Jose Miguel Cabrera is born in Maracay, Venezuela. His mother, Gregoria Torres, was a power hitter on Venezuela’s national women’s softball team

July 2, 1999

The Marlins beat out the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers to sign the 16-year-old Cabrera for a $1.8 million bonus

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June 20, 2003

Just a few weeks past his 20th birthday, Miggy makes his Major League debut with an 11th-inning walk-off home run

June 20, 2003

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Oct. 22, 2003

Cabrera, still just 20 years old, helped the Marlins to the World Series, where he showed Roger Clemens in Game 3 that he isn’t intimidated by anyone

October 22, 2003

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June 22, 2006

The Orioles tried to intentionally walk Cabrera with first base open and the go-ahead run on second, but “ball one” was in Miggy’s hitting zone

June 22, 2006

Dec. 4, 2007

Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski -- the Marlins GM when they signed Cabrera eight years earlier -- stuns baseball’s Winter Meetings by trading six players, including Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin, for Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis

See Tigers' biggest trades

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Oct. 3, 2012

No hitter in 45 years had won a Triple Crown, leading a league in batting average, home runs and RBIs. Cabrera got it done on the way to leading the Tigers to a World Series

October 3, 2012

See Miggy's top moments

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May 19, 2013

Not one, not two, but three homers for Miggy on a Sunday night in Texas, the second three-homer game of his career

May 19, 2013

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Aug. 9, 2013

Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer in baseball history, but he can’t finish off Miggy in this incredible at-bat

August 9, 2013

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June 23, 2013

Miggy’s personality is as big as his stats, as this young fan in Cleveland learned when he got more than a reaction from the batting champ

June 23, 2015

Enjoy more Miggy tales

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Aug. 22, 2021

Miggy joins the 500-homer club with this drive in Toronto, where Blue Jays fans gave him a standing ovation

August 22, 2021

Read it again

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April 23, 2022

Just seven players in MLB history have 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. Miguel Cabrera joins them with his single against Colorado

April 27, 2022

Relive the moment